Salvini's League fails to topple Italy govt in regional vote: exit polls Italy's populist leader Matteo Salvini appeared to have failed in his bid to win a key regional election and topple the country's fragile coalition government, according to exit polls late Sunday.\\n\\n"It is exciting for me that after 70 years here in Emilia Romagna there was a match for the first time," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES